Tiggy Johnson (editor, Page 17)  Selecting my favourite short stories is too difficult a task, partly because I’m not much of a re-reader, so this is just a snapshot of what I think today, this moment, and is likely to change next week, or even tomorrow. I’ve tried to keep it brief, though would really […]

Georgia Behrens is overawed by the next star of “The Short Story” panel, Pip Smith. When she first decided to host a story-telling night in the front room of her Newtown flat, I can’t really imagine that Pip Smith thought she was going to land herself a small literary empire. With the aims of a) […]

Georgia Behrens profiles the star of our upcoming panel, “The Short Story”: Bronwyn Mehan Boogie-board enthusiast, ukulele student and crossword connoisseur Bronwyn Mehan is a woman of many talents. She reads, she writes and she edits. She blogs, she tweets, she road tests “software for novelists”. And, most importantly for our purposes, she runs Spineless […]

Though they’re faster (to read) than a speeding bullet and have been written by many of literature’s greatest names, the short story is somewhat of a minority interest.In 2004, a UK Arts Council survey found that less than half of self-described “medium” readers “sometimes” picked up a book of short stories. Here at the NSW […]